Ukraine crisis analysis: The US and NATO cannot solve this – only Ukrainians can do that

Kim Sengupta, The Independent (United Kingdom)
Tension between the West and Russia, already high, ratcheted up even further by the shooting down of the plane; an internecine conflict made particularly vicious by sectarian oligarch-funded militias; an economy in freefall; the population facing the prospect of no heating with an icy winter ahead.